Wichita eagle., 1887-12-29
IT IS COMPLETED.
FROM WICHITA TO ELLSWORTH.
The Kansas Midland. the First and
most Important Extension OF
the Great St. Louis L. San
Francisco System.
Wichita'S New Outlet to Colorado and the
Pacific SlOpe-A Line Which lntersectS
All Other Transcontinental Lines
and Throws Open Northwest
ern Kansas TO Wichita
and St Louis.

derful success, but the reading business
world generally. The Kansas MIDLAND
railway, which sweeps up through one o
the finest and most fertile valleys of al
the great west, that Of the Little Arkansas
river, and on for a hundred miles beyond
and across the rich agricultural domain;
Of Harvey, Mcpherson, Rice and Ellis
worth counties to a connection with the
Union Pacific at Ellsworth in western-cen
trail Kansas, was completed yesterday. The
Importance of this new. and soon to bt
magnificent line of road, to Wichita and
to the Frisco system, can hardly be es
timated. 1t not only taps and makes
tributary to Wichitas jobbing and live
stock interests, a territory rich in all the
products pertaining to our grand state
and which have had heretofore but the
single Kansas City outlet, but afford,
Wichita another transcontinental and
Pacific connection, solving the problem OF
the added local to through Pacific
haul And that is but one
phaze of the advantages. For to
the people of western-central
Kansas it opens up not only a new compel.
ing route to St. Louis and nearer whole
sale and packing point than Kansas City,
but gives that people southern market
independent Of the Missouri river pools,
and new lumber supply. The citizens OF
Wichita may well feel an honest pride in
the successful cOnsumation Of an enter
prise which, while grand in and of itself,
involves so much Of that which pertains to
the city's future destiny-an enterprise
with which several of her own citizens
were not only identified but the successful
of which is the key to her
prestige and dominancy of a terri
tory naturally, and by the confirmation
of the country tributary to her. In all of
its present and future connections these
are lasting and permanent advantages
only.
The foresight and sound business judg-
ment that prompted Gen. +. f. Winslow,
president of the st. Louis d San Francisco
Railway Company, to close the negotia-
tions with President VIM. G. Dacey, in
view i OIh idSb AldlNll, W IItItbN bHC -iii
land Railway, with the advantages above
was secured and became an
integral part of the great system which is
so soon to become such prominent factor
in the transportation interests of this
country, cannot be commended too
highly To General Winslow and Presi-
dent VIM. q. Dacey the EAGLE
most gladly tenders its warmest congratu-
lations on the highly successful termina-
ton of this enterprise. To President
Dacey in particular, for his foresight,
energy, financial and executive skill as a
railway protector, manager and builder,
are our people directly under lasting obi
cations But for him this great and i'm
portant railway link would have been
abandoned, at least for the present.
The Midland railway, or line which
projected northwest from Wichita should
intersect and cut at right angles the trunk
lines that We're carrying everything 10
Kansas City, has been for a long
time a pet hobby OF the EAGLES
From the inception, therefore, Of the now
successfully completed undertaking, the
EAGLE has stood enthusiastically by its
officers and projectors. And we were not
a little pleased to know from President
Dacey himself that the EAGLE, with its
its standing and the manner in which we
have called the attention of New York
and Boston capitalists to the merits and
advantages of Wichita as the future
.ity of the great southwest, was.
If incalculable advantage III securing
he cooperation OF the magnates
If Wall street. and in interesting Il
syndicate of bankers second to none in
Yea It'll in America in the success of the
Midland"
The great Frisco system has now taken
me important first step i'll the right direc-
ion, and it is a grand step, one which will
prove of as great moment to Wichita as a
center as TO the railway itself
as the Frisco system is of
my complications in the Missouri river
,ool, not even touching that river at any
,oint, and having no interest in the
quabble of the roads terminating at Kan
as City: owning, as it does, half interest
II the Wichita & Western and forty-eight
,er cent OF the Atlantic x Pacific
extension westward from Albuquer
ue. it has only u project
mother link from Wichita, the principal
city OF Kansas, southwesterly
o a connection with its Territorial eXten
ion, to be able to dictate not only to all
,ther roads reaching Wichita, but to con-
erve our city's interest and at the same
inc its own advantages. in a most marked
manner. The greatest business point on
he line of the Frisco system outside Of It.
.ouis is Wichita. and with line south
vest from here, its interest in the one di-
ectly west. and the ownership OF the Mid
and, but now completed il can be seen at
glance what an important factor the
frisco becomes in the packing interests
which this city viii next spring lnaug
rate, and on such a large scale. From
orthwest Kansas and west Kansas and
rom southwest Kansas and the Indian
'erritory, moi only win this line haul live
took in and cured meats out, but also from
astern Kansas and western Missouri, and
rom northwestern Arkansas, when the /
larkets viii warrant the last haul To .
his state Of facts, upon the natural allied 4
lterests OF this system and Wichita, will .
ne success of the coming great live stock /
larket and packing interests OF this city .
srgely depend. The Frisco Will not only .
e able, then TO bring live stock TO this .
larket from almost every direction. but
deliver the slaughtered and cured meats
all of the principal markets east, west
nd south.
All this means not only a successful and
rofitable business for the road. but mil